With research in hand, Professor Deborah Gorman-Smith is leading the field of violence prevention by helping families and children.

Over his career, Stanley McCracken has connected research with practice to teach mental health and substance abuse treatment

"Music interventions have been wildly successful with those who have experienced trauma.”

We challenge our students to dig deeper to understand the root causes and human costs of social problems.

SSA has defined how the world understands the field of social work and the problems it addresses.

SSA's approach is interdisciplinary and intellectually pluralistic.

At SSA, practice and policy are complementary.